Senior Finance Manager – New Delivery & Assets

Do you want to do work that matters, alongside supportive leaders who will help you grow faster than you ever thought possible? Are you a creative problem-solver who is energized by challenges? You’ve come to the right place.

Who You'll Work With

McKinsey & Company is looking to hire an experienced professional into our Finance Planning & Analysis team (FP&A). This is an internal, non-client facing role. However, McKinsey manages itself using the same leading-edge approaches, tools, techniques, and processes that we bring to our clients. The department is responsible for strategic finance support, economic stewardship, and performance management including action-oriented insights.

This role includes the opportunity to partner with multiple senior leaders and other stakeholders within and outside of finance. You will be based in North America and report into the Director of Finance for ICC. You will provide overall direction for ICC Finance team members who support ND&A. ND&A practices are innovating our client service models, developing new assets, tools, capabilities, and ways of delivering client impact. It requires close partnering with Technology, People, Pricing, Controlling, and other firm functions.

Your impact within our firm

In your role, you’ll help shape and enable the economic stewardship agenda for New Delivery & Assets (ND&A) within the Industries and Client Capabilities (ICC) Finance team.

You will be a Business Partner for senior leadership on all Finance topics and will liaise with other team members and Finance service lines to meet the needs of key stakeholders.

Your primary focus will be on driving healthy, sustainable economic performance for ND&A focusing on the key levers that drive cell performance e.g., people, assets, pricing, productivity, investments, and cost management. You will help develop and share financial best practices with partners and colleagues to encourage sustainable healthy economic performance.

You will help establish standard performance management reporting and drive action-oriented insights that support leadership with decision making e.g., reporting on key economic levers, highlighting and monitoring where performance interventions are needed, investments (and leakage) levels, costs, activity levels, and establish forward looking indicators.

You’ll drive the annual planning process within ND&A. This includes process management, benchmarking, reviewing pricing, capacity modeling, asset economic considerations, and investments in innovation.

You’ll provide counsel and advice to a wide group of stakeholders on matters with financial implications. You’ll safeguard the firm through evolving and deploying controls which deliver effective stewardship.

Your qualifications and skills

• University degree, with post degree qualifications
• 8+ years of financial/administrative management experience, ideally in a professional services firm, blue-chip corporate or equivalent McKinsey consulting experience
• Knowledge of core finance and accounting principles with specific finance and/or management qualifications e.g., CFA, CPA, MBA
• Broad business acumen, with ability to develop strong collaborative relationships with senior executives/leaders
• Excellent problem solving, analytic and project management skills
• Outstanding communication, influencing and negotiation skills
• Strong leader and people developer and able to interface with people at all levels
• Collaborative, integrative working style, rapid to adapt to a changing and ambiguous environment